What happens on your little birthday?

When it's your special little day, is there something you always do to mark the occasion?

I have too many rituals to name, but even on my birthday I am subjected to my carer's discipline. While my cake is being prepared, I have the choice of being safely locked in my nursery, or sitting in the kitchen, blindfolded so I can't see the cake before it's ready. (I like this because I get fed bits of mixture!)

I don't get any presents until my carer has given me my dreaded and feared birthday spanking. This is not a few playful light taps, but a serious undertaking which really hurts: always over the knee, bare-bottomed and given with a slipper, paddle or hairbrush, or maybe all of them. I have to pay for the year's naughtiness so my devil can escape in the form of good clean pain, and to prevent "softening my body for the tomb". This may be accompanied with a few sobs from me and promises to be good this year.

Having had plenty of cuddles to help me calm down, I am then allowed to open my presents; these were usually wrapped the day before while I was blindfolded. Usually the pain in my bottom is forgotten while I have fun playing with my new toys!

I would love to, but I don't really have anyone who would go along with it. Really what I would love is if some of my friends give me toys as gifts. Like MLP, LTP, and of course care bears. I tell people that they don't have to spend an arm and a leg on me and a Birthday card would be perfectly fine. I am one of those weird people who loves it when people hand write what they admire or encouraging words on some card stock stamped with hobby ink.

For the past four years we have recreated my 6th birthday over and over. We have little Cesar's pizza, extra cheese Sicilian style, I open my presents and then we go to the 'drive in' which is what I did when I was 6 my first ever! We set up a mini theater outside and watch Secret of My Success and Back to the Future which is what played that night. We eat popcorn, swedish fish and junior mints. A couple of years we also had egg rolls because this is the first night I ever tried an egg roll, our local drive in sells them at the snack stand and my mom got them and let me have a bite. The weekend after we still visit some historic site separately, next year I'm planning on going to the Zoo the weekend after my birthday.